CIA REPORT PUBLISHED IN SNAFU

A picture on the cover of the current issue of the Foreign Service Journal shows a readable copy of one of the government`s most sensitive intelligence documents, according to government officials.

The Foreign Service Journal, published for members of the Foreign Service, is generally available to the public and has a circulation of 10,000. The document, a copy of the National Intelligence Daily, which is produced by the Central Intelligence Agency in traceable, numbered copies exclusively for the President and a small circle of others with top-secret clearance, was photographed on the desk of Ronald I. Spiers, undersecretary of state for management. Spiers was the subject of the article referred to on the magazine`s cover.

The CIA intelligence summary, which reports the latest intelligence evaluations by the agency, was open to two pages, apparently about the situation in Lebanon.

A map of Lebanon was partly blocked by Spiers` left hand. He had some hand-written notes partly shielding the print on the facing page, but clearly visible at the bottom of the page was the number 121.

Some text as well as codes, also at the bottom of the page, were not legible with normal magnifying equipment, but a congressional aide with a background in intelligence said, ''Based on my time in the business, this is the kind of thing you could blow up and clarify what the final thing is with not even very sophisticated equipment.''

The aide continued, ''This is a major breach of security.''

An aide to Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, ''Anybody else in the government who did this would have been fired if this had happened to them.''

Spiers was not immediately available for comment. A State Department press officer, Bruce Ammerman, said, ''The State Department has no comment at this time.''

Government officals reported that the State Department had sent an agent to the office of Stephen R. Dujack, editor of the Foreign Service Journal, who also took the picture.

The agent asked Dujack whether he would consider giving up the slides. Dujack, according to a government official, responded the he would refer the matter to counsel but that he doubted he would accede, citing freedom of the press guaranteed under the 1st Amendment.

Dujack still has the slides, a government official said. Reached at home Wednesday night, Dujack refused to comment.

The Foreign Service Journal is not an official government publication. It is published by the American Foreign Service Association, a labor union and professional association for foreign service employees at the State Department.

Spiers is responsible for organizing the personnel and financial resources needed to conduct foreign policy.